High Jumper by GVmakesGames

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made by GVmakesGames for LD27 (COMPO)
The game was made in about 12 Hours. It's not a masterpiece, but I enjoy playing with it.

How much blocks do you jump? I did jump 11 Blocks high, even 12, but I didn't save the screenshot :P

Records:
17 - Tegu
14 - Fanvadar
13 - GVmG

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Ratings

Coolness 48% 1156
Overall 2.67 915
Audio 2.65 499
Fun 2.75 702
Graphics 2.92 535
Innovation 2.76 714
Mood 2.88 432
Theme 2.92 773

Feedback

Fanvadar
25. Aug 2013 路 11:20 UTC
is 12 the max?
pretty cool btw
Fanvadar
25. Aug 2013 路 11:24 UTC
clearly not because i just got 13 XD
Fanvadar
25. Aug 2013 路 11:29 UTC
14!!!
馃帳 GVmakesGames
25. Aug 2013 路 13:20 UTC
You're good guys, I got to 12 and I just ragequitted... my own game xD
馃帳 GVmakesGames
25. Aug 2013 路 13:22 UTC
Well, the max is 100. You'll marry the ten girls/boys of your life legally if you get to 100 ;) jk
mactinite
26. Aug 2013 路 00:30 UTC
I made it to 12. Barely lol I like the music. :)
Ciaran54
26. Aug 2013 路 01:54 UTC
Nice! I like the glowing graphics and the music ;)
馃帳 GVmakesGames
26. Aug 2013 路 13:05 UTC
Thanks! The music is generated with cgMusic, and converted in that 8 bit style with GXscc ;)
Jupiter_Hadley
26. Aug 2013 路 22:23 UTC
"Failed to load 3D Mode" error when trying to restart
馃帳 GVmakesGames
27. Aug 2013 路 11:32 UTC
Try to update your drivers ;)
Kragnir
30. Aug 2013 路 18:39 UTC
Interesting and short game. The mouse sensitivity was too low for the kind of game it was, you should be able to look around you faster.
Endurion
30. Aug 2013 路 19:05 UTC
Looks and sound are nice, but the controls, urghh...
More than once I fell off although I was pressing Space to jump.
rejome
31. Aug 2013 路 14:07 UTC
Nice minimalistic graphics, music and simple but working concept. Missing some easing (= acceleration and inertia) in movements though.
馃帳 GVmakesGames
02. Sep 2013 路 11:27 UTC
Yeah, I was planning to add them, but I had problems, and was too late. So I have only this :C
Brejlounek
02. Sep 2013 路 16:15 UTC
Meeeh... Graphics is a little glitchy, and jumping should be possible while holding down W key. It is very hard for me this way, got to 5th or so plane.
Tegu
02. Sep 2013 路 18:23 UTC
Highly addictive game! Spent enormous amount of time trying to get higher and higher. At first the controls and plane collisions felt very weird and off, but after a while I got used to them and slowly learned how to get to plane 12 pretty much every time.

Then I wondered how it's even possible to get any further until I realized a nice little glitch with which I could get slightly higher. It needs some practicing and still requires perfect jumping and some luck with map generating. I just got sucked in to try to trickjump better and better.

The process reminded me a bit of learning how to strafejump etc in Quake and Warsow. It just is so addictive and learning feels so rewarding (well, maybe not so much in this game as in Warsow but still).

Anyhow, I finally managed to reach level 16 and ahh it feels good. Here's a shot: http://i.imgur.com/ediicAx.png Now I'm waiting for people to break that. :)
馃帳 GVmakesGames
03. Sep 2013 路 14:30 UTC
Tegu, is that the glitch when holding space and "touching" a platform next to the one you're on? It makes you jump again without having finished the previous jump, and it's like making two jumps in one ;) but yeah, you did 16? well done ;)
馃帳 GVmakesGames
03. Sep 2013 路 14:33 UTC
Oh and I tweeted about it, that's a record ;) https://twitter.com/GVmakesGames
g_o
03. Sep 2013 路 15:52 UTC
Srry dude couldn't give you a high score but pretty nice game for the 48 entry :D
zconnelly13
03. Sep 2013 路 15:56 UTC
pretty good idea, pretty good execution, nice sound :p

overall: http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lltzgnHi5F1qzib3wo1_400.jpg
jomomomo
03. Sep 2013 路 16:10 UTC
Can't play windows games. :-(
Tegu
04. Sep 2013 路 10:02 UTC
GVmakesGames: Yeah, exactly that glitch. And if the map is suitable, it's also possible to make more than a double jump. Also: http://i.imgur.com/a7JWAox.png (Tried to record with Fraps but the game kept crashing as soon as I started recording.)
馃帳 GVmakesGames
04. Sep 2013 路 11:55 UTC
I think it's some problem with how Game Maker draws in 3D. Using a normal projection the game can be recorded, but using an extended projection to change the fov (as I've done for this game) appears to crash it. And now, I'll add a classific :D
X-0r
10. Sep 2013 路 11:05 UTC
Oh man, my highest is only 10... no need to be proud of that, I assume.
Music is nice, but detuned too much for my taste and a bit too many rhythm issues.
As simple as they might seem, I like your neon platforms :P
Btw - is the player supposed to move faster diagonally? Maybe I only imagined it, but I could swear I could jump over a further distance that way ^_^
If you ever update/continue this.... maybe give a short overview of the map beforehand, rather than starting the game in the splitsecond you reach for the restart button ;)
archaeometrician
10. Sep 2013 路 19:59 UTC
Nice little game I love it :)
galman
10. Sep 2013 路 20:05 UTC
Cool game with cool mechanics, graphics and sounds! The only "problem" is that the control are a bit hard and made me rage quit :P
馃帳 GVmakesGames
12. Sep 2013 路 12:13 UTC
I know, the controls are the "bad" of this game :P I'll try to make a fixed version, if I have enough free time, but I can't upload it to the compo: rules and sheez.
Linusson
12. Sep 2013 路 16:31 UTC
As someone who always play with invert mouse I got quite confused playing this. :D